Suffolk Coastal
2010 Results:
Conservative: 25475 (46.41%)
Labour: 8812 (16.05%)
Liberal Democrat: 16347 (29.78%)
UKIP: 3156 (5.75%)
Green: 1103 (2.01%)
Majority: 9128 (16.63%)
Notional 2005 Results:
Conservative: 23391 (44.6%)
Labour: 13716 (26.1%)
Liberal Democrat: 11619 (22.1%)
Other: 3769 (7.2%)
Majority: 9675 (18.4%)
Actual 2005 result
Conservative: 23415 (44.6%)
Labour: 13730 (26.1%)
Liberal Democrat: 11637 (22.1%)
Green: 1755 (3.3%)
UKIP: 2020 (3.8%)
Majority: 9685 (18.4%)
2001 Result
Conservative: 21847 (43.3%)
Labour: 17521 (34.8%)
Liberal Democrat: 9192 (18.2%)
UKIP: 1847 (3.7%)
Majority: 4326 (8.6%)
1997 Result
Conservative: 21696 (38.6%)
Labour: 18442 (32.8%)
Liberal Democrat: 12036 (21.4%)
Referendum: 3416 (6.1%)
Other: 666 (1.2%)
Majority: 3254 (5.8%)
Boundary changes:
Profile:
Current MP: Therese Coffey (Conservative) Born Wigan. Educated at Oxford University. Former finance director. Contested Wrexham 2005. Contested South East region 2009 European elections.
Therese Coffey (Conservative) Born Wigan. Educated at Oxford University. Former finance director. Contested Wrexham 2005. Contested South East region 2009 European elections.
Adam Leeder (Labour) Parliamentary researcher. 
Daisy Cooper (Liberal Democrat) Born Suffolk. Educated at Nottingham University. Senior strategic planner.
Rachel Fulcher (Green)Stephen Bush (UKIP)2001 Census Demographics
Total 2001 Population: 95769
Male: 48.1%
Female: 51.9%
Under 18: 21.1%
Over 60: 28.3%
Born outside UK: 4.7%
White: 98.4%
Black: 0.2%
Asian: 0.3%
Mixed: 0.6%
Other: 0.5%
Christian: 75.4%
Full time students: 1.8%
Graduates 16-74: 18.8%
No Qualifications 16-74: 28.5%
Owner-Occupied: 72.6%
Social Housing: 13.3% (Council: 2.8%, Housing Ass.: 10.5%)
Privately Rented: 10.1%
Homes without central heating and/or private bathroom: 7.7%
A fairly comfortable win for Therese Coffey and the Conservatives. A very impressive showing by Daisy Cooper and the Liberal Democrats, who benefited most from the haemhorraging Labour vote.
If the Conservatives had won a small overall majority in the Commons or formed a minority Government, this could have been an interesting seat for the future.
It could possibly have been Suffolk’s example of Norfolk North, where Norman Lamb gradually built up a presence thanks to the Tories’ growing unpopularity in the 1990s. With the Liberal Democrats being the incumbents at the next election, I suspect that their strong showing in 2010 will gradually fade with the national trend.
I just spotted that this MP is just 40 (a few weeks ago). Am I being unkind, but she looked 50 when I saw her in the Commons.
‘Am I being unkind, but she looked 50 when I saw her in the Commons.’
I had her down for about 60 to be perfectly honest
It would be interesting to find out how much older she is than the Lib Dem candidate
I think that is a little unkind. I don’t see thats its any of our business whether she is or looks her age or not and its extremely ungallant to be commenting upon it.
‘I think that is a little unkind.’
You and I both know Shaun that if it were a Labour MP we were saying that about you’d be joining in the banter
It’s not unkind – just an observation
On scales of ‘unkindness’ it pales in compoarison to the suff you’ve said about every Lib Dem under the sun, the people of Liverpool and the poor old Mr Cameron – the most successful Tory leader in decades
I agree with Shaun.
I’ve made some pretty rude comments about the Lib Dems in general and about Ed Balls, and public sector HR people,
but I think to be commenting like this on particular people is rather out of order.
One of the difficulties now is that many people under 50 still look young and it’s almost expected nowadays/discounted in advance,
so if you look middle ageed people say you look old.
I don’t think so Tim no. I’ll attack Dennis skinner for being a dodery old Victorian cliche that belongs in a museum rather than a parliament.
And I’ve made fun of Andrew Smith’s strange voice which makes him sound a little more like Spitting Image’s Douglas Hurd than anything.
I’ve even pointed out how Hazel Blears has that annoying grin permamently etched onto her face, how she is the only person I’ve ever known that you can actually ‘hear’ smiling on the radio or the annoying way in which she wobbles her head with smugness when shes in a corner.
But so far as I am aware, I have never commented on a lady’s age nor whether they look it or not.
You can go too far!
LIb Dems tend to assume people will go down to their level.
Her web-site says
“Therese was inspired to join the Conservatives by Derek Hatton, who destroyed her home city of Liverpool. She believes the Conservatives were and still are the Party of aspiration and promptly joined in 1988.”
Good for her.
Here here.
It always surprises me that Hatton became so nationally recognised and powerful in Liverpool. He was only the deputy leader. I don’t think anyone can readily name who the Leader of Liverpool was at that time.
‘It always surprises me that Hatton became so nationally recognised and powerful in Liverpool.’
It wasn’t really that surprising.
In the 1980s part of Labour’s problem was their lack of charismatic figures. The few they did have – like Hatton and Benn – tended to be troublesome left-wingers who probably did them more damage than good in terms of electability
You’re right though – I haven’t a clue who the leader of Liverpool council was at the time
Isn’t Hatton a Tory now anyway?
I remember him being quite vocal in his support for William Hague over Tony Blair in 2001
“Isn’t Hatton a Tory now anyway?”
Ahhh! Don’t say that Tim!
Last time I heard him, he was still sounding like the loony left figure of old. Things will have gone really seriously wrong in the Tory Party if he were to be backing them!
Wikipedia: “It was reported in the Liverpool Daily Post[citation needed] in May 2007 that Hatton had recently rejoined the Labour Party and intended to seek selection as a parliamentary candidate in the North West”
Whew! heart attack averted then.
I think he was motivated by his dislike for Tony Blair and New Labour more than anything else Shaun but he was a DJ with Radio Merseyside at the time
He seems to have reverted to the left since then
Hatton is still a lefty. Saw him on TV ages ago (This Week maybe?) and he hasn’t changed a great deal
He did say he was a capitalist at one time because of the work he was doing. Property maybe. But I doubt someone like that would ever join, or be welcome by, the Tories.
Not sure if he is still a member of the Labour Party but wouldn’t be a shock if he stood for elected Mayor of Liverpool
“Not sure if he is still a member of the Labour Party but wouldn’t be a shock if he stood for elected Mayor of Liverpool”
No. Michael Crick interviewed Derek Hatton on TV last week and he categorically ruled out standing for mayor of Liverpool.
Hatton was a disaster for Liverpool. Until he came along it did seem to have some reputation for enterprise and there was a Conservative vote there.
I know he went into smart suits and celebrity programs, which showed a kind of cynicism that perhaps he didn’t really care,
but the last thing I read about him was his idiotic comments about wishing Margaret Thatcher was never born.
A woman who rescued Britain whilst he destroyed his area and did a great deal of damage to the image of his area.
On Suffolk Coastal, it remains to be seen if Labour gets back into second place. I’m not sure how the boundaries are to be drawn. They could find it a bit too much to do that – more parity with the LDs though.
The UK’s cumulative trade deficit between 1955 and 1997 was less than it was between April and June 2012:
http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/datasets-and-tables/data-selector.html?cdid=IKBJ&dataset=pnbp&table-id=A
The political and electoral ramifications when we stop having ‘austerity’, ‘cuts’ and a ‘public sector pay freeze’ and actually have austerity, cuts and a public sector pay freeze will be severe.
And can anyone beat Pete to answering why I posted this comment on this constituency?
@Anthony Wells
Something to make you laugh. Terese Coffey has been on
TV tonight suggesting that the Local Government Pension Board invest in Sizewell C as it has in her words ‘ a guaranteed low rate of return’.